The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 103

Full of curiosity he was about to rush towards the spot from whence the sounds of woe came, when the Vizier caught him by the wing with his bill, and implored him not to expose himself to fresh and unknown dangers.

Who acts: sound, sounds, Vizier · What happens: be, rush, come, catch, implore, not expose · To what, where: spot, sound, fresh dangers

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sound, sounds, Vizier), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 curiosity	case
3	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 about	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 about	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 about	cop
6	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Full	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 rush	mark
8	rush	rush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 about	xcomp
9	towards	towards	ADP	_	11 spot	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 spot	det
11	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rush	obl
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 whence	case
13	whence	whence	ADV	PronType=Int	8 rush	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sounds	det
15	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 came	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 woe	case
17	woe	woe	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sounds	nmod
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 whence	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 caught	punct
20	when	when	SCONJ	_	23 caught	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Vizier	det
22	Vizier	Vizier	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 caught	nsubj
23	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 came	conj
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 caught	obj
25	by	by	ADP	_	27 wing	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 wing	det
27	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 caught	obl
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 bill	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 bill	nmod:poss
30	bill	bill	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 wing	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 implored	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 implored	cc
33	implored	implore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 came	conj
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 implored	obj
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 expose	advmod
36	to	to	PART	_	37 expose	mark
37	expose	expose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 implored	xcomp
38	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	37 expose	obj
39	to	to	ADP	_	43 dangers	case
40	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 dangers	amod
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 unknown	cc
42	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 fresh	conj
43	dangers	danger	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 expose	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Full	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	sound				of curiosity; about property	tree rules
2	rush	to-infinitive	sound not said here			the spot	whence property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards spot=Destination
3	come	past	the sounds of woe					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	catch	past	the Vizier	sound			by the wing with sound's bill	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	implore	past	the sounds of woe not said here	sound				vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
6	not expose	to-infinitive	the sounds of woe not said here	sound	fresh dangers			vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Theme to danger=Recipient
7	bill		sound					nom bill «communication transitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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